Research into the Shimao culture of Stone Age China revealed a burial pit filled with skulls from about 4,000 years ago.

Despite sitting on the seafloor two millennia off the coast of Alexandria, still visible on the boat’s timber was graffiti ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

While archaeologists have previously documented a few similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

What archaeological discoveries are considered newsworthy by U.S. media outlets and audiences? A new analysis of "pop-science" reporting reveals topical and regional disparities, including an apparent ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a strange Viking Age grave in Norway with scallop shells covering the mouth of the ...

An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...